Tyre wear.

verdomde · Mar 16, 2017

Hey, am looking at a new T,
The front tyre looks like this

I haven't seen that kind of wear before, is it a bad omen?

These are metzeler racetec rr, am guessing these are pretty focussed tyres, will they be ok on the road and in the rain?

Any advice would be appreciated.

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grin factor · Mar 16, 2017

I've had similar wear on front tyres like that on a few bikes. Depends how hard you push the front, and go to the same lean angles. nowt to worry about

verdomde · Mar 16, 2017

Cool, thanks, I have always wanted one of these, so don't want to get a duff one

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Tifa · Mar 17, 2017

verdomde said:
Hey, am looking at a new T,
The front tyre looks like this

View attachment 4085

I haven't seen that kind of wear before, is it a bad omen?

These are metzeler racetec rr, am guessing these are pretty focussed tyres, will they be ok on the road and in the rain?

Any advice would be appreciated.

P

Looks as though it's been running on low pressure and overheated.
A new tyre will fix it.
Any decent sports touring tyre will do the job for road use.
Hard to find a bad tyre these days, but everyone has their favourite.

Blade · Mar 17, 2017

That's an ex track day scrubbed Tyre,it will clean up with road riding no problem

Paul D · Mar 24, 2017

Blade said:
That's an ex track day scrubbed Tyre,it will clean up with road riding no problem

Yeh. Pressed hard on a long bend and any road tyre will do that quite quickly! Which begs the question, why isn't the rear tyre the same, or worst? Presumably it's fairly new, hence replaced since the track day!

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